Improvement in seed-planters



ANDnnW J. nARNnAufr, oF- soHooLoRAFT, MICHIGAN.'

4Speciiicntion forming part of Letters Patent No. 12,465, dated February27, 1855.

. V l fo all whom it may concern:

Be it know-n that I, ANDREW Jr BARNBART, of Schoolcraft,`in thecouulyoi' Kalamazoo and State ot' Michigan, have invented a new andImproved(1on1-Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, 'reference being had `tothe annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichFigure 1 is avertical section of my improved corri-planter, the plane ofsection being through the center. Fig. 2 is the same view as Fig.1, butshowing a difterentposition of the parts. Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectionof the same, maf, Fig. 1, showing the plane of section. Fig. 4 le also ahorizontal section of thefsame, y] y, Fig. 1, showing the planeet'section. l

Similar letters of4 reference indicate correspondiug parts in theseveral figures.

. l This invention relates toa new and improved 'hand implementforplanting corn; and it 'consists in the combination ot' the severalparts of theimplement, as willbehereiuaitertsllyshown and described,whereby the necessary hole is iuadein the ground to ieceiife the cornand the corn dropped therein and covered with earth,

the whole operation of planting being accomplished byasimpleoperatiouofthe-implement. To enable othersskilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

A represents a cylinder, which may be con- .Y structed of' sheet-metal,and having permanently secured within Ait; two disks or plat-es,

a a', hetweep which a. loose disk, b, is placed.

4(See Fig. l.)` The disks a aha-ve each a verticalaperture,c, madethrough them near their edges, at opposite sides of their centers. The1owerdiskb, also has avertical aperture, d,

made through it.

B is a rod, which passes through the centers of the'disksa, c/aud b,said rod havingaiieather,

e, uponit, which feather fits in a groove near the'ccnter ofthe disk b,so that lby turning the rod B lheloose disk b will turnwith it; bnttherod maybemoved up and down without mow ingthe loose disk.- l0u the rodB, above the fdisk a, there is a. plate, f, through which the rodpasses, the feather e iittiug inthe groove grin the plate, causing. theplate to turn with the rod. (See Fig. 4.)

To the lower end of thc rod B there is attached a piston, U, which workswithin a cylcylinder A, pass, The guide-rods have springs 'jjattached'tothem, one toeach, and theyhave recesses k in them, one ineach,'a-s shown'by dotted lilies in Fig. 3, in whichl recesses the edgesof the eyes or apertures h li catch when the cylinder Dis raised.

F is a circular plate, attached to the piston C by rods '1 1' b', therods being equal in length to thecyliuder D, the rods b b passingthrough tire head or top of the cylinder D. On thev npper surface ofthis'plate two pins, l l, are attached, against which a small rod, m,4whichpasses throughnthe rod B, acts.

G'isa spiral spring, placed around the rod ,B and between the plaie'Fand disk u', as shownin Figs. land 2.

'is nie handle of the ma B. Operation: The corn to be planted is placedin the upper part ot' the cylinder A, above the disk aLand the lower endof the cylinder A being placed over the-desired spots, the rod B isfirs-t! drawn upward and then' turned from' rig-ht to left in order tobring the plate f over the aperture c in the disk a. This plate cuts :oEall communication between the aperture c `.which passes throu 'tithe rodB, acts 'against the pins ll'on the p ate F, and the edges of the eyesor apertures h. 1i in the projections it' at the upper end ot' thecylinder arein cousequence forced out from the recesses 1c, and

the rod is ypressed down ward, and the cyliuf` der I) is forced into theground and then With-- drawn' by drawing up the rod B, thc cylinder Dheilig filledl with earth and a hole formed in the ground. When thecylinder is withdrawn the edges of the eyes or apertures li h catch intothe recesses 7.', lacing Vforced in by the spriugsjj, and hold thecylinder I) properly in place. The royl li is now turned from left toright, and the apcrturcd in the loose disk b is apertures guide-' rods EE, attached to the inner surface of the small vertical H is a cover ortop ot' the cylinder A, and I 'A brought over the aperture c ot' thelower disk a', and thc corn in the aperture (Lfalls thro-ugh theaperture c in the disk a and passes down around the cylinder D into thehole made in the earth hythecylindcr D when it was pressed into theearth. The rod b is now forced down, the spring G assistingnand thepiston C forces the earth out of the cylinder D into the hole in theearth and covers the corn which was dropped therein.

Fig. 1 shows the position of the parts when the corn is covered, andFig. 2 shows the parts when the cylinder D is forced down.

The reds b b have recesses du attheir lower end. One is shown in Fig. 2,which, when the plate is first; turned from right to left, catches overthe edges of the slots in the head of the cylinder D, through whichslots the rods Z1 b pass and allow the cylinder to be forced down hypressing' down the rod B', and when the rod is turned from left to rightthe recesses u u are freed from the edges ot' the slots and allow thepiston to be forced down.

` -Hav'ing th`us described my invention, what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of the disks a a' I), movable cylinder D, and piston C,the above rparte bcinginclosed or working withiiracylinder or case A,and arranged substantially as shown, and for the purpose as set forth.

ANDREW J. BARNHART.

Witnesses: f

ALEXANDER BUELL, OLIVER DAVENPORT.

